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WITCHES SABBATH I (1977)
(Heksensabbat I)
In March of ‘77 the artist painted Witches’
Sabbath I, a theme that intrigued him enough to
reprise it with Witches’ Sabbath II in June of ‘78.
Then, in March of ‘79 he completed the huge
Adoration of Pan, a triptych measuring two metres
high and three metres across.
A profound alteration in his vision has occured.
The upward striving Hermes has given way to the
downward pointing Baphomet. The Hermetic works
have come to an end; the Pantheist works
commenced. What is more, the erotic nude has now
been combined with the ‘infinite figure’ painting to
express this new Pantheism. Where sexuality was
concentrated before on a single nude form, now it
has exploded into a swirling mass of human figures.
These large disturbing works offer a vision of
humanity caught in the darkness below. No sacred
symbol, no higher light guides them upward, toward
heavenly ascendence or self-transcendence. Instead,
at the eye of the maelstrom appears the great god
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THE ADORATION OF PAN (1979)
(De aanbidding van Pan)
Pan - his curled horns and cloven hooves, his full
breasts and huge phallus bringing together and
embodying their longing for orgiastic union. The
only light in this world below is the torch that blazes
between the devil’s horns. And in the absence of
spirit, the only unity to be consummated is in the
flesh, as humanity’s sexual striving for universal
procreation.
And yet, the Occult elements must not be
mistaken for a form of Devil worship. The Horned
God in this work harkens back to older Pagan
traditions, where Nature was worshipped through
midnight fertility rites. The witches’ sabbath was a
celebration of the all-pervading Life-power which
flowed through Nature, and manifest itself in the
growth of plants, the engendering of animals, and in
humanity’s own sexual striving. Johfra’s Pantheist
works express, above all, the Life-force that flows
through Nature.
(For an analysis of The Witches’ Portraits, The
Witches’ Sabbath and The Adoration of Pan, see the
article The Pantheist Johfra.)
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